“…he totally changed my life …”

 

 Episode_015_Danny_Williams_Pt1 [57:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Well, here we are again.

As promised here is Part 1 of 2 with my chat with Danny Williams.

Danny, if you dont know was a former modeller at Blue Sky Sudios for over 10 years (currently working at ArenaNet). In this episode we talk about what got him to that point, all the way upto Robots. And being a modeler it was awesome listening to his stories and experiences.

I cannot spend alot of the post waffling because there will be a plethora of links further down with people that have helped Danny along the way and vise-versa. (in chronological order)

Links

John Danison

Danielle Cambridge

Michael Defeo – Homepage – LinkedIn – Bobby Chui Interview

Mark Piretti

Jenga Mwendo

Alex Levenson – Homepage – LinkedIn

Shaun Cusick – Homepage – LinkedIn

Mark Baldo – R&H Announcement hiring Mark

Jaime Castañeda

Rob Cardone

Stephen Unterfranz – LinkedIn – IMDB – His Siggraph Paper on Procedural Rigging – Accompanying MOV

All that there is left to say is i hope you enjoy the episode.

And be on the lookout (or subscribe), for the next episode is when we talk about Ice Age 2 : Meltdown, Horton, his new job working on Guildwars 2 and other stuff.

This episode is rated:

“…man this is the cat’s ass, I mean im just totally digging this”

 

 Standard Podcast [58:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

And we are back.

Well, not quite. There is a bit of an announcement in the beginning of the show that i guess will explain everything.

In this episode in joined with Jason Clark, someone who I have known for a while now. And I basically talk about his start into 3d, CAD, the various places he’s worked and his current job at the Vancover Film school.

I’m not gonna summarize the entire interview here so just listen if your interested .

But here are a few links to check out while you listen.

Linkedin Profile
Personal Site
CG Society Portfolio
VFS Digital Design Course

Apart from that be sure to listen to the end where I tell you what the next episode will bring.

Untill then, have fun.

It’s summer oh and it’s Independence Day

This episode is rated:

“…Im probably gonna say something that i will probably regret, but im gonna say it anyway…”

 

 Episode_013_Smelly_Fruit_Pt2 [38:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hey,

So here we are with the final part of our interview/chat with Jonathan and Sintel project and the final show that has been sitting in our vault ready to be released.

Im so glad now that we have no more shows to produce and publish and we can move forward and release new shows as we make them. Especially since i have a better way of recording and I’am no longer distracted by what is going on behind the scenes. ie Levels, the mixer, the recorder etc. It really takes my eye off the ball when we are talking about stuff.

Anyway, in this episode I begin by asking Jonathan how many character/lifeforms will be in the Durian Project. How many will he be modelling etc.
I suggest an idea that would invalidate the Sintel project for being known to have been created with open-source software.

The durian blog has had many contributions of the past few months and we discuss one particular persons’ views. Juan Romero felt the original design of the Guardians wasnt as strong as it could be. Original Design

So the Durian team let the public have a crack at making it better. Nad here is his attempts / contributions.
Image 1 – Stylized
Image 2 – Realism

And we end with would Big Buck Bunny be better today with the current version of Blender and we finally talk about Blender becoming a full featured professional production worthy tool in years to come and is it a question of ‘if’ or ‘when’.

As for the plug, i forgot mine in this episode so i let you know at the beginning of the show, of a place that i think y’all should check out, if your into Maya and/or Mental Ray.
Greensoda.tv

Its a cool site made by Alex Villabon (Twitter) a cool artist and a listen of our show.

Eugene had a few blogs to promote of people talking about the industry..
CG Supervisor
FX Corner

And Jonathan obviously had the Durian Project

So its a short show, but now we can move forward and talk about things that are currently in the news.

Look forward to making another episode. Sooner rather than later.